Apple 27-inch iMac Review

The 27-inch iMac is both sleek and stylish with its aluminum design, quad-core processors, FaceTime HD camera and more. Kevin Pereira and Candace Bailey review the features in this all-in-one desktop from Apple, like the LED-backlit display, wireless connectivity and up to three times faster graphics.

What You Need To Know

• The aluminum design of the iMac is striking.
• The 27" glossy screen is the biggest you can get with an all-in-one.
• The display has a good amount of tilt to it, which will help if you are worried about glare.
• The screen itself is bright and vibrant, with very good color reproduction.
• There is an SD card sot next to the optical drive.
• The back has 4 USB ports, 1 Firewire 800 port and 2 Thunderbolt ports.
• Thunderbolt can handle 10 GBs each way, making it twice as fast as USB 3.0.
• While there are currently many more USB 3.0 peripherals, we are starting to see more Thunderbolt peripherals hitting the market.
• The 27-inch iMac ships with Lion so if you don't have it already, you are going to have to get used to the backwards scrolling.
• If the Magic Mouse isn't magical enough for you, you have the option of ordering it with the magic track pad.
• Backwards scrolling started with the Lion OS and it can be extremely frustrating at first.
• The scrolling is just like an iPhone: swipe down to scroll up and vice versa.
• Lion seems like it was built in anticipation of a touch screen interface.
• The iMac is slim and powerful and this model has a quad core i7 processor so it can handle almost anything you throw at it.
• These machines can handle heavy work loads with the best of them.
• This is a 3.4 GHz i7 processor along with a 1 GB graphics AMD Radeon processor.
• The iMac comes with 4 GB of RAM and though Apple is normally stingy with RAM, it's fine because their RAM is usually overpriced.
• This iMac will handle up to 16 GB of RAM thanks to its 4 RAM slots.
• Extra RAM is cheap online and easy to install.

Price

• Starts at $1,799 and the model we reviewed hear is $2,300.

Rating

• 5 Seals of Approval out of 5. (How do we rate gadgets?)
• The screen is gorgeous.
• The aluminum construction sets this apart from other manufacturers.
• There is plenty of power in here for anything you want to do.

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